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Kev

these violent young lovers carry every thing their own way

About Me

If I had two lives, I'd spend the extra one reading books.I edit the literary e-zine SWELL. You can find it here .

My Interests

Writing. Human behavior. The places where art and commerce meet. Perforation. Gender roles. Cities and city games. Emasculation. Doubles and multiples. Changing. Nightmares. Fucking masks. Reading. Personae. Your headless torso. Mercury. Different voices for different audiences. Knife ghosts. Shame vs guilt culture. Maneuvers and dodging. The life cycle of relationships. Icicles by Cynthia. Video games. Spirit animals. Nonverbal communication. Horus. Recontextualization. Closed mouth smiles. Scented gentlemen. Doors, entrances and exits. Codes.

I'd like to meet:

A man who can grow Ernest Hemingway's beard.

Music:

Goldfrapp. French Kicks. David Bowie. Belle and Sebastian. Kate Bush. U2. My Morning Jacket. New Order. Bjork. Momus. Luomo. Saint Etienne.

Movies:

Bad Education. Being John Malkovich. Three Colors. The Royal Tenenbaums. Igby Goes Down. Closer. Ghost in the Shell. Doctor Zhivago. Amelie. I Heart Huckabees. Orlando. The Incredibles. Blade Runner.

Books:

Joan Didion: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Political Fictions, The White Album. Philip K. Dick: VALIS, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. Ursula K. Le Guin: The Earthsea Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness. Quentin Crisp: The Naked Civil Servant. Larry Kramer: Faggots. Mary Renault: The Charioteer. Herman Melville: Moby Dick. Virginia Woolf: Orlando. Michael Chabon: The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar. Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking. Jeanette Winterson: The Passion.

Heroes:

Yoshitaka Amano. David Bowie. Joan Didion. Alison Goldfrapp.